Fully autonomous BMW coming in 2021

Follow Viknesh BMW on Friday announced a partnership with Intel and Mobileye to help spur the development of autonomous driving technology. Intel is a leader when it comes to artificial intelligence while Mobileye is a developer of monitoring systems autonomous technology relies on. Mobileye supplies monitoring systems to a number of automakers including Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] whose Model S while in semi-autonomous Autopilot mode was involved in a fatal accident last week. BMW says the goal of its partnership with Intel and Mobileye is to get a fully autonomous car on the market by 2021. The firms also hope to establish an open platform for the technology that could be made available to other firms and thus align the industry on a standards-based platform to quickly bring autonomous cars to…